Hovenga Evelyn J S
Faculty of Informatics and Communication, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, MC4702, Australia.
Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004;109:3-7.
There is a need to establish collaboration alliances or partnerships if we are to provide global Health Informatics educatics education. Agreements need to make provision for the existing diversity between country educational systems as well as variations in funding, legislation and political systems and a number of other issues including intellectual property and copyright. Four virtual University governance models were identified, 1) evolution of existing universities, 2) newly created organisations collectively delivering one type of program eg MBA, 3) a consortium of partners using a common portal and 4) a commercial enterprise. Collectively IMIA academic members need to be in a good position to respond to the global changes in higher education and minimise the risk of failure when establishing a virtual University to collectively deliver Health Informatics education. Others have undertaken a similar path in the past, some successful others not so, we need to learn from these experiences.
如果我们要提供全球卫生信息学教育，就需要建立合作联盟或伙伴关系。协议需要考虑到国家教育系统之间现有的差异，以及资金、立法和政治制度的差异，还有包括知识产权和版权在内的许多其他问题。确定了四种虚拟大学治理模式：1）现有大学的演变；2）新创建的组织共同提供一种类型的课程，如工商管理硕士；3）使用共同门户的合作伙伴联盟；4）商业企业。IMIA的学术成员总体上需要有能力应对高等教育的全球变化，并在建立虚拟大学以共同提供卫生信息学教育时将失败风险降至最低。过去其他人也走过类似的道路，有些成功，有些则不然，我们需要从这些经验中学习。
